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Old 03-10-2009, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Gunmaster45 View Post
That's what I've always hated about blank guns. They don't have recoil like a real gun, so the realism is cut down in the film even more. I like how people like Clint Eastwood fake the recoil, which is something I always thought was cool about him.

One question for the armorers, how come M60s in all those 80s films like Rambo: First Blood and Platoon had recoil when firing? Did the 7.62 bottleneck rounds produce kick somehow?
Blanks don't have kick. In large guns, it's the motion of the bolt carrier that rattles the gun back and forth.
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